The art in photography is literary art before it is…

Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you…

— Paul Strand

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial…

— Paul Strand

The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were,…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

“I remembered a time we were going through magazines. There was this one model who looked icy to the touch, in total control. I…

— David Levithan

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there…

— Dorothea Lange

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something…

— Clement Greenberg

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new…

— Robertson Davies

In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of…

— Robert Olen Butler

Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial…

— Marleen S. Barr

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement…

— Herbert Spencer

“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it…

— Ambrose Bierce

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my…

— Michael Hersch

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can…

— J. B. Bury